ABYC A-3 July, 2013 Equipment Division Standard ® Thermal Appliance Project Technical Setting Standards for Safer Boating Committee The ABYC Standards and Technical Information Reports for Small Craft are the product of @ consensus of representatives of goverment, industry and public sectors. Its intended solely as a guide to aid manufacturers and the marine community inthe design, construction, equipage and maintenance of smal craft ABYC reviews each standard at least every five years at which time it may be reaffirmed, revised, or withdrawn. ABYC welcomes any written comments on the staridards and Technical information reports, ABYC A-3 GALLEY STOVES nt ny Se, (©2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, IncA3 713 THERMAL APPLIANCE PROJECT TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Robert Newsome, Chairman Mike Adler Douglas Cowie Kim MacCartney Po Chang Ralph Lambrecht Thomas Schultz This list represents the membership at the time the Committee was balloted. NOTE: Membership on @ committee shall not in and of itself constitute an endorsement of ABYC or any document developed by the committee on which the member serves. This standard was developed under procedures accredited as meeting the criteria for American National Standards, The Project Technical Committee that approved the Standard was balanced to ensure that individuals from competent and concerned interests have had an opportunity to participate, This standard, which is the result of extended and careful consideration of available knowledge and experience on the subject, is intended to provide minimum performance requirements. ABYC’s Project Technical Committee meetings are open to the public. All contact regarding standards activity interpretations, or meeting attendance should be directed to the ABYC Technical Department at comments@abycine.ora ABYC and its committees do not “approve", ‘certify’ or ‘endorse" any item, construction, or proprietary device. REQUEST FOR INTERPRETATIONS. Upon written request, the Thermal Appliance PTC will render an interpretation of any requirement of the Standard The tequest for interpretation should be clear and unambiguous. Requests should be presented to the PTC in a manner in which they may be answered in a yes or no fasion The Committee reserves the right to reconsider any interpretation when or if addtional information which might affect, it becomes available to the PTC. Persons aggrieved by an interpretation may appeal to the Committee for reinterpretation (©2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, IncA-3 GALLEY STOVES Table of Contents 3.1 PURPOSE. 1 32 SCOPE, 1 3.3 REFERENCES.. 3.4 DEFINITIONS 3.5 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 36 SOLID FUELED STOVES. 3.7 LIQUID FUELED STOVES 3.8 GASEOUS FUELED STOVES 39 ELECTRIC STOVES. 3.10 SAFETY SIGNS AND LABELS. FIGURE 1 - FABRIC ZONES FOR COOKING DEVICES Origin and Development of ABYC A-3, Galley Stoves: © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Couneil, IneA3 713 A-3 GALLEY STOVES Based on ABYC’s assessment of the existing technology. and the problems associated with achieving the goals of this standard, ABYC recommends compliance with this standard for all boats and associated equipment manufactured and/or installed after July 31, 2014 3.1 PURPOSE These standards are guides for the design, construction, installation, and maintenance of galley stoves, 32 SCOPE These standards apply to permanently installed galley stoves designed for cooking in accommodation spaces in boats. EXCEPTION: Stoves covered by ABYC A-30, Cooking Appliances with Integral LPG Cylinders. NoTes: 1. LPG systems are covered by ABYC A-1, Marine Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Systems. 2. CNG systems are covered by ABYC A-22, Marine Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Systems. 33 REFERENCES The following publications form a part of ths standard. Uniess otherwise noted the latest version of referenced standards shall apply. 33.1 ABYC - American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc., 613 Third St. Suite 10, Annapolis, MD 21403 Phone: (410) 990-4460. Fax: (410) 990-4466. Web site: vnww abycine ora. ABYC A-1, Marine Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Systeme ABYC A:22, Marine Compressed Natural Ges (CNG) Syslems ABYC A:30. Cooking Appliances with Integral LPG Cylinders ‘ABYC _E-11, AC and DC Electrical Systems on Boats ABYC T5, Safely Signs and Labels 3.32 _ANSI- American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42"° Street 13" Floor, New York, NY 10038 Phone: (212) 642.4900. Web site: wwww.ansi.org. ANSI 221.57 Recreational Vehicle Gas Cooking Appliances 33.3 _ NFPA - National Fire Protection Association, Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02269 Phone: (800) 344- 3585, Web site: wonw.ntpa.or NEPA 255 Method of Test Of Surface Buming Characteristics Of Building Materials NFPA 701, Standard Methods of Fire Tests for Flame Resistant Textiles and Films 33.4 UL - Underwriters Laboratories Marine Department, POB 19995, 12 Laboratory Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Phone: (919) 549-1400. Website: www. ul.com UL 103, Chimneys, Factory-built UL 858, Household Electric Ranges UL 1100, Alcohol and Kerosene Cooking Appliances for Marine Use 3.4 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this standard, the following definitions apply. 3.4.1. Accommodation Spaces - spaces designed for living purposes for persons aboard a boat. Examples of Specific uses of accommodation spaces inciude: staterooms, heads (bathrooms), galley, pilothouse, navigation, ‘workshop, and other similar people-oriented spaces. These uses contrast with engine and fuel tank compartments, (© 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc. 1A3 73 3.4.2 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) - a gas that consists principally of methane in gaseous form and includes naturally occurring mixtures of hydrocarbon gases; CNG is natural gas that is normally supplied as a fuel by a gas tity, and is stored under pressure in portable cylinders, NOTE: CNG cylinder charging pressures can exceed 2,600 psi (17,926 kPa). 3.4.3 Flame Failure - the failure of combustion to continue afer intial flame establishment. 344 Flame Failure Device - a device preventing fuel from flowing to a burner if flame is not present. 34,5 Galley Stove (Stove) - an appliance designed fer cooking that makes use of burners, heating elements, an oven, a broiler or any combination ofthese items. 3.4.6 Liquid Fuels - alcohol, kerosene, and dieset oil 3.4.7 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) - a gas that includes products predominantly composed of any of the following hydrocarbons: propane, propylene, butanes, i.e., normal butane or isobutane, butylenes, or @ mixture thereof. 3.4.8 Room Sealed Combustion System - 2 combustion system in which incoming air, the combustion chamber, {and the outgoing products of combustion ate sealed from the boat interior. 3.4.9 Solid Fuels - coal, wood, charcoal and solidified alcohol. 3.5 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 35.1. Printed instructions for proper installation, operation, including refueling, where applicable, and maintenance Shall be provided with each stove, 3.5.1.1. The instructions shall include information on the risks associated with the production of earbon monoxide (CO) and the consumption of air (oxygen) by the appliance, and 3.5.1.1.1 information forthe installer relative to the installation ofthe warning label(s) required fer compliance with this standard, See A.3.10.2. 35.2 A durable and permanently legible sign covering the proper stove operation, including refueling, if applicable, and any unique hazards of the stove, shal be provided and 35.2.1 shall be affixed in a conspicuous manner on, or adjacent to, fuel burning stoves or ranges. 35.3. The stove shall be capable of normal operation when inclined at angles up to 30° from the horizontal, in any direction, sustained at the maximum angle for atleast 15 seconds. 3.5.4 _ Stove operating controls shall be located to minimize the possibilty of injury from burners or elements when being used. 3.5.5 Means shall be provided on stove top cooking surfaces to prevent cookware from sliding off the stove when inclined to 30° from the horizontal, in any direction NOTE: The means to prevent cookware from sliding off a non-gimbaled stove may be attached to the adjacent counter, back splash, or other structure, provided the intent of this requirement is met. 3.5.6 All devices and appliances shall be secured so as to prevent upset or displacement that will place a strain upon the fuel distribution system andor the appliance connections. 3.5.7 Oven doors shall be provided with a means to prevent unintentional opening due to forces from sliding food andlor utensis. 3.5.8 Each stove shall be permanently marked or labeled with the following information: 38.8.1 manufacturer's name or trademark: © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Ine 2A3 713 35.82 manufacturer's or prime seller's address 3583 model number 3.5.84 serial number or coded month and year of menufacture 3585 fuellype or energy source used. 3.59 Instalation Instuctions 35.8.1 Stoves shall be mounted in accordance with the manufacturers instructions that are in compliance with this standara, 3.5.82 With the stove installed, the temperature of the surface below the stove, and immediately surrounding vertical combustible surfaces shall not rise more than 150°F (65°C) above the compartments ambient temperature ‘when tested with the temperature test of section 18 of UL 1100, Alcohol And Kerosene Cooking Appliances For Marine Use. NOTE: The above referenced test applies to all stoves. 35.9.3 Exposed materials and finishes immediately above, below, and surrounding stove tops shall have 2 flame spread of not more than 75 min-t (246 min-m) as determined in accordance with NFPA 255, Method Of Test Of ‘Surface Buming Characteristics Of Building Materials. 35.9.4 Free hanging curtains or other fabrics used in the vicinity of cooking devices shall not be fitted within Zone 4 of Figure 1 EXCEPTION: Fabrics that are flame resistant or that are treated to be flame resistant in accordance with NFPA 701, Standard Methods of Fire Tests for Flame Resistant Textiles and Films 35.9.5 Fabrics located in Zone 2 of Figure 1 shall be flame resistant or shall be treated to be flame resistant in accordance with NFPA 701, Standard Methods of Fire Tests for Flame Resistant Textiles and Films. 35.10 Smoke Pipes And Stacks 3.5.10.1_ Single wall smoke pipes or stacks shall have @ minimum clearance of nine inches (230 mm) from Combustible materials, including painted surfaces, or shall be separated from them by fie resistant thermal insulation 35.102 fused, double or triple wall smoke stacks shall mest the requirements of UL 103 Chimneys, Factory-built, and 3.5.10.2.1 shall be installed in accordance wit the instructions of the stack manufacturer. 36 SOLID FUELED STOVES 3.6.1 Solid fuel burning stoves shall not be installed in gasoline powered boats. 3.6.2 Permanently installed solid fuel buming stoves shall be equipped with @ smoke pipe or stack that shall terminate above the uppermost deck with smoke heads designed to minimize water entry, spark emission, and back drat EXCEPTION: Solidified alcoho! galley stoves 37 LIQUID FUELED STovES 3.7.1. Appliances using gasoline in aliquid or solid form for priming or fuel are prohibited. 3.7.2 Liquid fuel priming pans or troughs shall be secured to the bumer or generator so that their relationship is maintained 3.7.3. Priming pans or troughs shall be designed to permit lighting by standard matches in a manner that will © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc. 3A3 73 minimize personal injury, and 3.7.3.1 shall be designed to contain fuel under normal conkitions of the boat's pitch or rll to 15° in any direction 3.7.4 Areadily accessible, liquid tight, non-flammable drip pan, at least 3/4 inch (20 mm) deep, shall be provided beneath all burners. 37.5 A pressurized stove with an integral tank(s) supplying liquid fuel to the bumer(s) shall be designed to ‘minimize the likelihood of refilling the tank while the burner(s) is in operation must be 3.7.6 —_Unpressurized stoves with fuel held in absorbent matter that are designed so that the fuel contai removed for filing shall display a warning that complies with section A-3.10 SAFETY SIGNS AND LABELS. 3.7.7 Non-integral gravity fuel supply tanks shall be capable of withstanding a pressure of three psig (21 kPa), and 3.7.7.4 their capacity shall be imited to two gallons (7.5 L) 3.7.8 Pressurized tanks shall be equipped with relief valves. 3.7.9 Pressurized liquid fuel tanks integral with a stove shall withstand an internal pressure of four times the relief valve setting or 100 psig (690 kPa), whichever is greater. The complete system shall be pressure tested up to the relief valve setting 37.8.1 These tanks shall be shielded or insulated so that, under prolonged continuous operation of the stove at ‘maximum heat output, the pressure in the tank will not exceed 50% of the relief valve setting, 3.7.10 Non-integral pressurized liquid fuel tanks shall be tested to a minimum pressure of two times the design ‘working pressure or 100 psig (690 kPa), whichever is greater. 3.7.11. Installation 37.111 A readily accessible shutoff valve, not integral with the stove, shall be located near liquid fuel gravity tanks and at or on all non-integral pressure fuel supply tanks, and 3.7.11.1.1 the valve shall clearly indicate the off and on positions as well as the closing direction. 37.112 Liquid fueled stoves having 2 non-integral gravity tank, shall have a provision to relieve any excess pressure inthe fuel line between the tank valve and the burner valve, 3.7.1.3 _ Liquid fuel supply lines from remote tanks shall be installed as a continuous run from the shutoff valve at the tank tothe stove, orto the flexible section atthe connection to a gimbaled stove. 3.7.11.4 Gravity tanks installed in the compartment with the stove shall be located or shielded so that, as installed, land under continuous operation at maximum heat output, the fuel temperature will not be raised more than 25°F (14°C) above the ambient compartment temperature of 77°F (25°C). 37.11.58 The provisions for filling gravity tanks shall be remote from open flame. See A-3.75. 37.116 Fill openings for remote fuel tanks shall be prominently identified to indicate the type of fuel to be used withthe system, The word “tue! alone shall not be used. 3.8 GASEOUS FUELED STOVES 3.8.1 Bummer controls shall be equipped or designed to require a push-turn or other two-step operation when going ‘rom the off to on positon. 3.8.2 _ Allgaseous fueled stoves and ovens shall have a flame failure device on all burmers and pilot lights. 3.8.3 Stoves shall meet the combustion requitements of ANSI 221.57 Recreational Vehicle Gas Cooking Appliances. © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Ine 4A3 713 39 ELECTRIC STovEs 3.9.1 Each electric stove shall meet the requirements of UL 858 Household Electric Ranges. 3.9.2 Electric stoves equipped with a lid or cover shall incorporate an automatic power disconnect switch that tums off all surface burners when the lid or cover is lowered over the heating element, 3.9.3 Electric stoves shall have alight indicating when one or more heating elements are energized 3.9.4 Installation 3.9.41 Electric stoves shal be installed in accordance with manufacturer's instructions 3842 ACelectrical systems shal comply with ABYC E-11, AC and DC Electrical Systems on Boats 3.8424 Neutral (white) and grounding (green) conductors shall not be connected together at the appliance Separate neutral and grounding conductors are required for electric stoves used on boats. The neutral shall not be used as a grounding conductor. If @ grounded neutral is provided by the appliance manufacturer, it shall be disconnected from the appiance at the time of installation. See ABYC E-11, AC and DC Electrical Systems on Boats 3.10 SAFETY SIGNS AND LABELS 3.10.1 Safety signs and labels shall comply with ABYC T-5, Safety Signs and Labels, and shall contain at least the following informational elements: 3.10.11 the hazard intensity signal word 3.10.1.2 the nature of the hazard; 3.10.13 consequences that can result i the instructions to avoid the hazard are not followed: and 3.10.1.4 instructions on how to avoid the hazard, 3.10.2 A permanent, legible label about the hazards related to fuel burning appliances, ie. a (oxygen) ‘consumption and carbon monoxide production, shall be affixed in a conspicuous manner on, or adjacent to, fuel buming stoves or ranges, NOTE: An example of such a label follows: Awarninc ‘Open flame cooking appliances consume oxygen ‘and produce carbon monoxide, To avoid asphyxiation, or injury or death from exposure to carbon monoxide, maintain open ventilation when using these appliances. Do not use this appliance for comfort heating © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc. 5A3 73 3.10.3 Unpressurized stoves described in A:9.7.6 shall display a sign about the hazards related to improper refveling NOTE: An example of such a sign follows: WARNING Improper stove burner refueling practices can result in fire andior expiosion. To avoid severe injury or death from fire or explosion, flew the stove ‘manufacturer's instructions for refiling burner, and tum the stove bumer off before refueling: + remove the container from stove: ‘fil the fuel container away from stove, 3.10.4 For gaseous fueled stoves, in addition to the sign required in ABYC A-1, Marine Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) systems, or ABYC A-22, Marine Compressed Neturel Gas (CNG) Systems, as applicable, a sign shall be provided with each LPG and CNG stove installed in a boat, This sign shall be plain visible and located on or in the Immediate vicinity of the stove NOTE 1: An example of a sign for an LPG galley stove follows: NOTE 2: An example of a sign for a CNG galley ‘stove follows: WARNING A WARNING Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is flammable and explosive. Follow these instructions to avoid injury or death from fire or explosion. + This system is designed for use with liquefied petroleum gas (LPGipropane/butane) only, Do not connect compressed natural gas (CNG) to this system + Keep LPG oylinder andlor solenoid valve(s) closed when boat is unattended, and when appliances are not in use. + Close cylinder valves immediately in any emergency. + Keep empty cylinders tightly closed. ‘+ Close all appliance valves before opening the cylinder valve ‘+ Apply ignition source to burner before ‘opening appliance valve, ‘+ Test the system for leakage in accordance with the instructions required to be posted in the vicinity of the cylinder each time the supply valve is opened for appliance use. Never use flame to check for leaks! ‘Compressed natural gas (CNG) is flammable and explosive. Follow these instructions to ‘avoid injury or death from fire or explosion. ‘+ This system is designed for use with compressed natural gas (CNG) only. Do rot connect liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to this system, ‘+ Keep CNG cylinder andior solenoid valves) closed when boat is unattended, and when appliances are not in use. ‘+ Close cylinder valves immediately in an emergency. + Keep empty cylinders tightly closed. ‘+ Close all appliance valves before opening the cylinder vave. ‘+ Apply ignition source to burner before ‘opening appliance valve, ‘+ Test the system for leakage in accordance with the instructions required to be posed in the vicinity of the cylinder each time the supply valve is opened for appliance use Never use flame to check for leaks! © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Ine. 6A3 73 3.10.5 On boats with gasoline engines, a sign shall be installed that includes @ waming about the hazards of gasoline vapors and open flame appliances, NOTE: An example of such a sign follows: A WARNING Gasoline vapors are explosive. Open flame appliances can ignite gasoline vapors causing death or injuries from fie or explosion. Turn off all open flame appliances when fueling, FIGURE 1 - FABRIC ZONES FOR COOKING DEVICES Cabin Top ZONE! © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc. 7A3 73 Origin and Development of ABYC A-3, Galley Stoves The initial report of ABYC A-S first appeared in 1955, It was revised in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1962. It was adopted in 1985 and updated in 1970, 1993 and 2007. The 2013 version is the work of the Thermal Appliances Project Technical Committee ‘ABYC technical board rules provide that all reports, including standards and technical information reports, are ‘advisory only. Their use is entirely voluntary. They represent as of the date of publication, the consensus of knowledgeabie persons, currently active inthe field of small craft, on performance objectives that contribute to small boat safety The American Boat & Yacht Council assumes no responsibil whatsoever for the use of, or failure to use, standards| or technical information reports promulgated by it, their adaptation to any processes of a user, of any consequences | flowing therefrom Prospective users of the standards and technical information reports are responsible for protecting themselves| ‘against liailty for infringement of patents, ‘The American Boat & Yacht Council standards and technical information reports are guides to achieving a specific level of design or performance, and are not intended to preclude attainment of desired results by other means, © 2013 American Boat & Yacht Council, Ine. 8